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Patrick Burke celebrates his election to the New York State Assembly at the Democratic Party election night celebration in the Larkin Center of Commerce, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. (Derek Gee/Buffalo News)

Burke had 23,510 votes or 49.95 percent, compared to 20,784 or 44.16 percent for Bohen.

The race featured two South Buffalo candidates: Bohen, a Buffalo special education teacher on leave, a Democrat who ran on the Republican and Conservative lines, and Burke, the endorsed Democrat, who also ran on the Working Families and Reform party lines.